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Michelle Теа
Drag Queen Story Hour
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michelle Tea (born Michelle Tomasik, 1971) is Michelle
chelle Tea
This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose
to reflect recent events or newly available information. (October autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism,
2022) race, Class, sex work, and other topics.!"! She is originally
from Chelsea, Massachusetts and was identified with the
Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), Drag Queen Drag Queen Story Hour San Francisco, California literary and arts community for
Storytime, Drag Story Time, and Drag Story Ноигаге Genre A
many years. She currently lives Los Her
children's events first started 2015 author and activist
Michelle Tea in San Francisco with the of promotin Public books, mostly memoirs, their exposition of К
ding and diversity the events, usually geared for
an 5, usually Michelle Tea
children aged 3-11, are hoste rag queens who rea
9 У Participants Children parents drag Early life [edit]
children’s books, and engage in other learning activities in queens 1 и
public Some see the concept as Activity Storytelling reading Tea grew up in Chelsea, Massachusetts in a working-class
unconventional since libraries are usually more reserved learning activities family.JHer father was a Polish her mother was Irish
and the queens usually host nightlife events rather than People Julian Delgado Lopera and French Canadian. She felt different from other children, BEN
leading sing-alongs.!7] Virgie Tovar Jonathan and she took comfort in music. In high school, Tea
Jonathan Hamilt, who co-founded the New York chapter as Hamilt identified with the goth subculture and artists such as
a nonprofit, said that as of June 2019, DSH has 35 and Website www.dragstoryhour.org 2 Siouxsie Sioux. She was also drawn to literary work,
i, iS. i Born Michelle Tomasik
five international chapters.!7] The program strives to including The Outsiders Hinton, the poetry of Sylvia 1971 (age 51-52)
"capture the imagination and play of gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, Plath, and the beat movement. Chelsea, Massachusetts
positive, and unabashedly queer role When she was twenty years old, Tea read Angry Women
The practice has been labelled as "grooming" social from RE/Search Publications, which included interviews у director
with radical female performers, writers, and thinkers. The
History Ledit book was highly influential. "That really made me see that
there is a lineage [of female writers], and a path, and could really put myself on that," she
Drag Story Hour was started in 2015 in San Francisco author Michelle Tea, who was also the explained in an
executive director of nonprofit Radar Productions at the time; the first events were organized During her hole in the wall of her
9 9
Julian Delgado Lopera and Virgie Tea, who identifies as queer, came up with the idea after
attending children's library events with her newborn son and finding them welcoming but many years. Tea began drinking
she imagined was and to LGBTO alcohol as a teenager. When she was 19 years old, her stepfather admitted to the abuse, but Tea's
The first event was held at the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library in mother chose to stay with i was at this that Tea decided to move out of her home and
aon relocate to the home of her girlfriend at the time in Boston.!?]
During this period, Tea supported herself with two minimum wage jobs as а hair salon receptionist
and deli shop employee. Her girlfriend, a sex worker, was earning significantly more money than
she did. She decided to into sex work as well. In the early Tea broke up with her girlfriend